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Mary Douglas  

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  • Mary Tew Douglas, a British anthropologist, is most famous for her work on ritual purity, bodily symbolism, and cultural perceptions of risk. Trained at Oxford under Evans-Pritchard, she began her career studying the Lele of the Congo. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Douglas, Mary (1921–2007)]

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